Eedu Anubhavam – Ivaiyum Avaiyum

In the preceding “Odum Pulleri” thiruvaimozhi, Nammazhwar enjoyed the ‘Arjava’ guNa of the supreme Lord. Azhwar’s yearning for the Supreme Lord grew manifold after enjoying His Arjava Guna at the end of the previous decad.

In this decad, we see how the Supreme Lord, the One with an eye for taste, bound by Azhwar’s devotion, locks Himself in divine union with the latter and thereby relishes/finds pleasure in latter’s company.

Just like He created the thirst in Arjuna to see His ViswarUpa and subsequently bestowed in him the vision to see His divine form, the Supreme Lord, drawn by Azhwar’s devotion, seized the opportunity to create in Him the thirst for divine union and subsequently blessed Him with it.

The Lord locks Himself in divine embrace with different people differently. He mixes with the divine mothers in the capacity of a Husband; with Garuda in the capacity of the latter being His vehicle; and with Ananta in the capacity of the latter being His bed. Azhwar reckons that the Lord’s union with him displayed a mixture of all these three categories.

The Supreme Lord unfolds His glorious traits and deeds to His devotees in stages, consistent with their capacity of intake. In the case of Azhwar, the Lord does not confer upon him all the bliss that celestials enjoy with Him in one go. On the contrary, the Lord’s advances happen in stages so that Azhwar will be able to handle it.

Just like a newborn cannot be fed with adult-scale rice in one go, the Lord’s grace too needs to be regulated in a manner that the recipient can stomach it. It is this well-regulated flow of Lord’s grace that Azhwar brings out through the Kalyana Guna ‘Satmya Bhoga Pradatvam’ in this decad.